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Western Native Voice v. Stapleton
- Question Presented
- Whether the Ballot Interference Prevention Act violates the Plaintiff’s right to vote, right to free speech, right to association, and due process.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Indigenous Persons
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 25, 2020
- Date added
- Oct 9, 2020
Judgment
Baytan v. Commission on Elections
- Question Presented
- Whether petitioner's voluntary disclosure and alleged good faith mistake is sufficient to survive a preliminary hearing requiring only probable cause?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Voter Registration
- Country
- Phillippines
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 4, 2003
- Date added
- Sep 23, 2020
Judgment
Chiafalo v. Washington
- Question Presented
- Whether a pledge requirement and sanction violates the Electors Constitutional right to pledge electoral votes regardless of voter preference?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jul 6, 2020
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
Judgment
National Elections Commission v. Siebo
- Question Presented
- Whether the respondent lost his right to appeal the Review Panel rejection of his application when he failed to meet the Election Commission’s deadline.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Liberia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 19, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 16, 2020
Judgment
Rideout v. Gardner
- Question Presented
- Whether a prohibition of a photograph of a completed ballot violates the First Amendment?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Technology
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 11, 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
Judgment
Hong Kong Police Force v. Electoral Affairs Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether a publicly accessible voter list violates the right to privacy?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Voter Registration
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 5, 2020
- Date added
- Jul 24, 2020
Judgment
Electoral Commission v. Rawali
- Question Presented
- Whether the postponement of the polling day due to inclement weather violated sec. 97, 115, 117, and 206 of Organic Law.
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Independence
- EMB Operation
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 20, 2003
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2020
Judgment
In re Representation of People Act and the September 7, 2015 Elections.
- Question Presented
- Whether the potential for Chief Justice bias is sufficient to overturn the dismissal of a petition challenging election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Electoral Integrity
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 6, 2020
- Date added
- Jul 10, 2020
Judgment
Attorney General v. Taylor
- Question Presented
- Whether the 2010 Electoral Amendment Act is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act due to the provision disenfranchising prisoners
- Legal Issue(s)
- Judicial Independence
- Voter Registration
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Nov 9, 2019
- Date added
- Jul 10, 2020
Judgment
Shura Council Speaker's request for constitutional review of the drafted law.
- Question Presented
- Whether the proposed provisions are constitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 13, 2013
- Date added
- Jul 6, 2020
Judgment
Shura Council Speaker request for constitutional review of the draft law regulating the exercise of political rights.
- Question Presented
- Whether the draft law adheres to the current constitutional political protections.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 26, 2013
- Date added
- Jul 6, 2020
Judgment
Abdel-Razeq v. Ahmed
- Question Presented
- Where the constituency representation scheme violates the reasonableness standard.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Mar 15, 2015
- Date added
- Jul 6, 2020
Judgment
Wong Souk Yee v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether the Prime Minister had a duty to fill the vacancy in a Group Representation Constituency.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- EMB Independence
- Country
- Singapore
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Apr 10, 2019
- Date added
- Jul 1, 2020
Judgment
2001 (Gyo Tsu) 82 Judgments of the Supreme Court
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Country
- Japan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 14, 2001
- Date added
- Jun 29, 2020
Judgment
2001 (Gyo Tsu) 233 [Case to Seeking Nullification of the Election]
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Japan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Dec 18, 2001
- Date added
- Jun 29, 2020
Judgment
1999 (Gyo Tsu) 35 [Judgment of the Grant Bench, dismissed by the Supreme Court]
- Question Presented
- Whether the unequal treatment between independent and political party candidates regarding broadcasting during campaigns was unconstitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Social Media
- Country
- Japan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 19, 1999
- Date added
- Jun 29, 2020
Judgment
Raatsin for the Declaration of Invalidity of the Voting Results of the Riigikogu Elections of 2011
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Mar 23, 2011
- Date added
- Jun 26, 2020
Judgment
Chester v. Secretary of State for Justice
- Legal Issue(s)
- Judicial Independence
- Voter Registration
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 16, 2013
- Date added
- Jun 23, 2020
Judgment
Case on Election Campaign by Teacher via Social Networking
- Question Presented
- A public school teacher shared a post on his/her Facebook that indicated that a political candidate was lying.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- South Korea
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 27, 2020
- Date added
- Jun 18, 2020
Judgment
Case on Restricting Online Media from Publishing Columns, etc. Written by Candidates for Public Official Election
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- South Korea
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Nov 28, 2019
- Date added
- Jun 18, 2020
Judgment
New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa
- Question Presented
- Whether the requirement of political party membership for candidate eligibility is constitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- South Africa
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 11, 2020
- Date added
- Jun 11, 2020
Judgment
Union NSW v. New South Wales
- Question Presented
- Whether Election Code s 96D, and 95G6 are inconsistent with the Australia Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- Australia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Dec 13, 2013
- Date added
- Jun 9, 2020
Judgment
Freedom Front Plus v. Electoral Commission of South Africa
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Operation
- Country
- South Africa
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Apr 29, 2019
- Date added
- Jun 3, 2020
Judgment
Democratic Alliance v. Electoral Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the Commission is able to make this determination and implement the enforcement action.
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Operation
- Country
- South Africa
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date added
- Jun 3, 2020
Judgment
Tanganyika Law Society v. Tanzania
- Question Presented
- Whether the Tanzania regulation prohibiting independent candidates from seeking public office is unconstitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Tanzania. United Republic of
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2019
- Date added
- Aug 1, 2019
Judgment
APDH v. Cote d'Ivoire
- Question Presented
- Whether the composition of the IEC is in conformity with the Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Independence
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Ivory Coast
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Nov 18, 2016
- Date added
- Aug 1, 2019
Judgment
Décision n° 98 407 DC du 14 janvier 1999 Conseil constitutionnel
- Question Presented
- Whether the Electoral Code provision requiring parity between male and female candidates violates the French Constitution?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Jan 14, 1999
- Date added
- Jul 25, 2019
Judgment
Décision n° 2001 445 DC du 19 juin 2001 Conseil constitutionnel
- Question Presented
- Whether section 33 of the French Institutional Act violates the Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Jun 19, 2001
- Date added
- Jul 25, 2019
Judgment
Opitz v. Wrzesnewskyj
- Question Presented
- Were irregularities related to voter registration significant enough to annul the elections? Which approach should be followed in determining electoral irregularities?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Oct 25, 2012
- Date added
- Jul 23, 2019
Judgment
Mavedzenge v. Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs
- Question Presented
- Applicant seeks declaration of constitutional invalidity of Electoral Act section 192(6), particularly striking the phrase "approved by the Minister" from the provision. Is the Minister's approval requirement tantamount to the ZEC being subject to his direction and control?
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Independence
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 31, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2019
Judgment